Vehicle



(No Model.)

' F. 1-. LANDIS.

VEHIGLE.

No. 445,022. Patented Jan. 20,1891.

WITNESSES NITE STATES ATENT OFFICE.

FRANK. F. LANDIS, OF \VAYNESBOROUGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

VEHICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,022, dated January 20, 1891.

Application filed November 8, 1890. Serial No. 370,795. (No model.)

To (Li/Z whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, FRANK. F. LANDIS, a cilizen of the United States, residing at W'aynesborough, in the county of Franklin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to vehicles such as grain-separators mounted on wheels; and it consists in the novel construction and combination of the parts hereinafter fully described and claim ed, by which the traction of the vehicle is effected, and which permit the front axle to be swiveled in every direction.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of the front axle, showing the tongue and one of the axle-skeins in section. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the center pivot of the axle. Fig. 3 is an end view of the axle.

A is the axle, and A are the axle-skeins, which are provided with bearings a for the road-Wheels in the usual manner. Each skein is provided with a socket a, which is driven over the end of the axle and is provided with projecting bosses 2 at the top and bottom.

13 is the tongue, secured to the middle of the axle, and Z) are diverging brace-rods secured at one end to the tongue by the bolts 1), and having eyes 0 at their other ends,which are slipped over the bosses2 on the upper and lower sides of each skein socket. O is a bolt which passes through the said bosses and through the end of the axle, and holds the axle, skein, brace-rods, and tongue all rigidly united together.

0' is a washer-plate secured over each upper boss 2 and eye 0, and 3 is adirt-guard upon one side of the said plate,whicl1 projects over the wheel-hub. A lug at is also formed upon the said washer-plate for the attachment of the doubletree-check-chain at each side of the vehicle. all the twisting strain off the socket-joint between the skeins and the axle when the tongue is raised or lowered, and the bolts C do not receive any strain, but merely serve to clamp the parts together.

D is the cross-piece or bolster, which is adapted to be rigidly secured to the front por The diverging brace-rods take tion of the vehicle in any approved manner. The axle is pivotally connected to the bolster by a ball-and-socket joint, so that it may be free to move in every direction.

I) is a hemispherical socket, which is provided with flanges cl and rigidly secured to the bolster by the bolts d. Lugs 8 are also formed on the socket D for the attachment of rods 9 for bracing it to the vehicle-body.

E is a hemispherical block provided with the flanges e and rigidly secured to the axle and to the end of the tongue by the bolts e.

The hemispherical block E is hollow and has a concentric hemispherical socketf inside it, and f are metal webs, which hold the said boss and socket firmly united.

G is a hemispherical block, which works within the socket fabove the axle, and this block is provided with the pocket g.

H is the king-bolt, provided with a hexagonal head 71,which engages with the pocket g, or the said bolt may be otherwise secured to the block G. The king-bolt passes upwardly through the openings 5 and (3 in the socketf and the block E, and through a hole in the bolster. A nut it is screwed on the upper end of the king-bolt, so that the hemispherical surfaces can slide in any direction upon each other, but cannot come apart.

\Vhat I claim is 1. The combination, with the axle pivoted to the bolster by a ball-and-socket joint and the tongue secured to an axle, of the axleskeins secured to the ends of the axle and provided with projecting bosses on their upper and lower sides, the diverging brace-rods secured at one end to the tongue and having eyes at their other ends engaging with the said bosses, and the bolts passing through the said bosses and through the ends of the axle, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the axle-skein engaging with the end of the axle and provided with a boss projecting from its upper side, of a brace-rod having an eye engaging with the said boss, a bolt passing throughthe boss, and a washer-plate provided with a dirt-guard and a lug for the check-chain and adapted to be held in position by the said bolt over the said eye on the brace-rod, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with an upper hemispherical socket adapted to be secured to avehicle-body, of an upper hemispherical block adapted to be secured to the axle and provided with an internal hemispherical socket concentric with the curved surfaces of the said block and the upper socket, and webs connecting together the said upper block and the internal socket, a lower hemispherical block sliding in the said internal socket, and a king-bolt secured to the said lower block and operatively connecting the upper block with the upper socket, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination, with the upper hemispherical socket secured to the bolster, of the hollow hemispherical block secured to the axle and provided with an internal hemi-r spherical socket concentric with the curved surface of the said block, and Webs connecting together the said hollow block and the internal socket, a lower hemispherical block sliding in the said internal socket and provided with a pocket in its lower side, and a king-bolt provided with a head engaging with the said pocket and operatively connecting" the upper block with the upper socket, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

FRANK. F. LANDIS. lVitnes'ses:

HERBERT W. T. J ENNER,

G. ARVID ANDERSON. 

